WINEGATE.DLL: Wine gateway to native Unix libraries

[Vincent Povirk]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
> They really are very simple wrappers around Unix system
> calls.  There's no reason you can't write your own wrappers
> in assembly inside your winegate, they would probably
> only be ten lines or so each.

According to the man page, dlopen() is a library call, not a system
call. And a real .dll can't link to a native library, which is the
problem we're trying to solve.